The investment industry is littered with jargon: the use of numerous acronyms when we describe fees is particularly irritating to many – OCF, TER, AMC. No wonder investors are confused and the Financial Conduct Authority – the investment industry ‘watchdog’ – has spent the past five years or so looking …
Read More »I’ll come good, says Invesco’s Mark Barnett as he is judged 84th of 85
One of the country’s top fund managers, dubbed by some financial experts as ‘son of Neil Woodford’, insists his ‘well-tested investment process’ will eventually come good. The claim, made by Mark Barnett of major investment house Invesco, comes as the latest performance statistics show he is delivering returns for fund …
Read More »Four tips to protect your investments against a fall
As investors we’re constantly told that ‘markets can go up as well as down’. But if you’ve forgotten the last part, it’s probably because 2017 was a year of almost all up and very little down. Not only did most stock markets hit new record highs, they did so with …
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